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Sheep Thrillz
39562 Hwy 226
Scio, Or 97374
503-394-2021
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Cheer and Shout and the Newspaper
There is a place not too far from here that people rarely visit. It's called Bear Mountain, and it can be found at the end of a quiet little farm valley. Bear Mountain is a very special place, it is the home to an unusual population of Black Bears. One young bear named Griz loves going on adventures and then telling stories about his adventures. This is the story of one such adventure when Griz ventured down to the valley with his friends Cheer and Shout.
Cheer and Shout are twin brothers, crazy about sports and VERY competitive with each other. Cheer is brown with a grey face and Shout is black with a light brown face. Whenever the bears play their games, Cheer and Shout are always on different teams. Despite their competitive nature, the two brothers are still very good friends and do almost everything together, so it was no surprise that when Griz told them he had to go down to the valley they both decided to go with him. Mr. Frank had asked Griz to see if he could find him some tools. Mr. Frank knew that people often leave old tools out behind the farm barns or along the fence lines.
It was very rare that the bears went down to the valley. All bears were taught from a very early age that people are afraid of bears and could be dangerous, so they were to be avoided at all times. Griz had been to the valley only twice, once with Mr. Frank and once with his father, and he knew that being allowed to go without them meant that he was growing up. It would also be a great adventure! Cheer and Shout had never been to the valley before, so on the way down the mountain Griz took great care to remind them about avoiding people, picking up only things that looked like they had been abandoned or lost a long time, and staying away from the houses and farm animals.
By the time they reached the tree line at the edge of the farm land, Griz had instructed Cheer and Shout to follow the fence line in either direction while he crept up to the junk pile behind the nearest barn. It was an outlying barn far from the farm house, but Griz was still very cautious. Griz found lots of things that Mr. Frank could use: an old hammer, chisels, knives and pliers. Needing something to carry them all in, he found some newspapers and wrapped up the things he had found. Back at the edge of the woods the bears compared their finds before heading back up the mountain. Mr. Frank would be very pleased.
The next day as Griz put all of the things in a big sack to take to Mr. Frank, Cheer and Shout started looking at the newspapers. There was lots of information about human sports, especially football. Griz left the two brothers reading while he hiked up the mountain to Mr. Frank's cave. Mr. Frank was very pleased with the new tools and invited Griz to stay awhile, but Griz was anxious to see what the twins were doing in his cave, so he headed home. As he approached his cave he could hear the boys arguing. They were shouting football team names at each other!
Strewn about Griz's cave were the newspapers and some books the boys had borrowed from Flossie about human sports. The boys had been busy, they had learned all about human sports and were loudly debating which sport was better and which teams were better. "Hey! What are you two doing, clean up this mess you have made in my cave!" exclaimed Griz. "Sorry, Griz," said the boys. "We were just a bit excited, we have discovered lots of new games to play!" As the boys cleaned Griz's cave they chattered constantly about human sports. By the time they were done they had come to a decision.
The next day the boys were back at Griz's cave, and they wanted to go back to the valley. "We need to find bits of colored cloth and paper so we can make things in our teams' colors," they explained. Griz told they that it was not allowed, but promised them that when more trips were made to the valley their things would be looked for. In the months to come lots of scraps of paper and cloth were found for the boys, and from then on whenever anyone saw the twins they were wearing hats or scarves or carrying flags bearing colors of one sports team or another, and Griz had a new story to tell, all about the day that Cheer and Shout became sports fans.
(each bear available with your choice of team colors)
$34.95 each
